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What Makes Sydney’s Pondi Beach Different? It’s 50 Miles Inland.
AUSTRALIA DISPATCH It’s no Bondi Beach, but Pondi, or Penrith Beach, has been a welcome relief to the city’s sweltering western suburbs. By Victoria Kim Reporting from Penrith, Australia Kristine Carroll plopped herself down in the only shade on the beach — a triangle cast by the makeshift lifeguard station — and slathered sunscreen all…
More than 1m people flock to Sydney’s New Year’s Eve fireworks spectacular
Nine tonnes of fireworks are set off around the harbour, while Brisbane and melbourne also enjoyed shows Australians have bid farewell to 2024, ringing in the new year with one “world-famous” fireworks display and many others not so famous. More than a million people rushed to the shores of the Sydney Harbour and hundreds of…